1. Accessing Pictures: Show students an object; have them describe it. Hide it. Ask them to describe how it looks in their mind.
2. Visualizing: Revisit Cat's Colors without showing pictures. Ask students to say what they are visualizing.
3. Using Five Senses: Read the Lion's Tale to notice the five senses. Fill in a chart.
4. Practice Visualizing: Read a poem called "Cats." Visualize. Turn and talk.
5. Revisiting My Five Senses: Comparing two texts: Desert is My Mother; Lion's Tale. Discuss how they use their five senses.
6. Visualizing: Introduce Cookie's Week (repeat what is in lesson 2).
7. Creating Sensory Images: This House is Made of Mud to show the language of imagery.
8. Reading Poems: Read poems out loud to feel the rhythm of the language. (Teacher models first.)
9. Using the Strategy of Visualization: Read Cookie's Week without showing the pictures. Notice whether students are able to visualize & understand the story w/o seeing the pictures.
10. Visualizing Rabbits: Using White Rabbit's Color book to practice visualizing. (Repeat of week 2).
11. Making More Rabbits: Re-read the story and visualize without pictures.
12. Making Umbrellas: Read the poem "Umbrellas" and talk about what students see in their minds.
13. Naming our Mentors: "Connect poets' names to things poets try to view themselves as." Notice what poets use to convey their messages.
14. Making More Umbrellas: Use markers to draw the pictures in their minds.
15. Reading Together: Celebration!
Essential Learning: Visualizing
Proficiency: Students will define visualizing as creating a picture in my mind and will be able to draw a picture of their visualization of a poem and describe it orally.
See a picture in their head and be able to draw a picture of what they are seeing.
Pre-Assessment: After reading the poem There Once Was A Queen students will draw a picture of their visualization. (Teachers will not define visualization until Lesson 1.)
Date
Step 1
Collect & Chart Data
Step 2
Analyze Strengths
& Obstacles
Step 3
Establish Goals:
Set, Review, Revise
Step 4
Select
Instructional Strategies
Step 5
Determine
Results Indicators
Next Steps
Ruth: Final 8/23
Kelly: Final 2/16
Many knew the definition of visualization but didn't have a picture that matched the poem. (Zoom, zoom, zoom: Visualized the rocket but not the moon.)
2/23
Ruth:
4-0
3-3
2-5
1-11
0-4
Goal: 10/23 will be P+
Kelly:
4-0
3-0
2-1
1-8
0-7
Goal: 9/16 will be P+
Emma:
4
3
2
1-2
0-3
Goal: 2 will be P+ by the end.
One student describes an object hidden in a bag, while the other students visualize what is inside.
Rhyme: Close your eyes and visualize. (Hopefully this will help them remember to create the picture in their mind.)
2/2
Define proficiency. Design pre-assessment making sure it matches the definition of proficiency. Also - go over results for unit 3.
1:35-2:15
Ruth Christiansen
Kelly Breen
Emma Mighan
Archive Unit 2 Reading Learning About Books
Archive Unit 3
Unit 4: Poetry
Timeframe:
1. Accessing Pictures: Show students an object; have them describe it. Hide it. Ask them to describe how it looks in their mind.
2. Visualizing: Revisit Cat's Colors without showing pictures. Ask students to say what they are visualizing.
3. Using Five Senses: Read the Lion's Tale to notice the five senses. Fill in a chart.
4. Practice Visualizing: Read a poem called "Cats." Visualize. Turn and talk.
5. Revisiting My Five Senses: Comparing two texts: Desert is My Mother; Lion's Tale. Discuss how they use their five senses.
6. Visualizing: Introduce Cookie's Week (repeat what is in lesson 2).
7. Creating Sensory Images: This House is Made of Mud to show the language of imagery.
8. Reading Poems: Read poems out loud to feel the rhythm of the language. (Teacher models first.)
9. Using the Strategy of Visualization: Read Cookie's Week without showing the pictures. Notice whether students are able to visualize & understand the story w/o seeing the pictures.
10. Visualizing Rabbits: Using White Rabbit's Color book to practice visualizing. (Repeat of week 2).
11. Making More Rabbits: Re-read the story and visualize without pictures.
12. Making Umbrellas: Read the poem "Umbrellas" and talk about what students see in their minds.
13. Naming our Mentors: "Connect poets' names to things poets try to view themselves as." Notice what poets use to convey their messages.
14. Making More Umbrellas: Use markers to draw the pictures in their minds.
15. Reading Together: Celebration!
Essential Learning: Visualizing
Proficiency: Students will define visualizing as creating a picture in my mind and will be able to draw a picture of their visualization of a poem and describe it orally.
See a picture in their head and be able to draw a picture of what they are seeing.
Pre-Assessment: After reading the poem There Once Was A Queen students will draw a picture of their visualization. (Teachers will not define visualization until Lesson 1.)
Collect & Chart Data
Analyze Strengths
& Obstacles
Establish Goals:
Set, Review, Revise
Select
Instructional Strategies
Determine
Results Indicators
Kelly: Final 2/16
4-0
3-3
2-5
1-11
0-4
Goal: 10/23 will be P+
Kelly:
4-0
3-0
2-1
1-8
0-7
Goal: 9/16 will be P+
Emma:
4
3
2
1-2
0-3
Goal: 2 will be P+ by the end.
Rhyme: Close your eyes and visualize. (Hopefully this will help them remember to create the picture in their mind.)